Billie Holiday Death Lesson Summary Billie Holiday Billie Holidaywas one of the most cutting-edge, influential Americanjazzsingers from the 1930s through the 1950s. Her birth certificate says she was born Elinore Harris on April 7, 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but she spent most of her...
If ever there was a chart statistic to prove that artistic influence is not always matched by commercial achievement, it lies in the fact that for all ofBillie Holiday’s unquestioned preeminence as a unique vocal talent, her UK chart debut came 26 years after her death. On November 16, 19...
Billie Holiday (born April 7, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 17, 1959, New York City, New York) was an American jazz singer, one of the greatest from the 1930s to the ’50s. Eleanora (her preferred spelling) Harris was the daughter of Clarence Holiday, a professional...
Billie (2019), directed by James Erskine, is a culmination of many different individuals’ dreams of seeing Billie Holiday’s story finally being told. In this hour and a half documentary, the director carefully pieces together the audios with such magne
Holiday made her final public appearance in a concert at the Phoenix Theatre in New York City on May 25, 1959. She died in Metropolitan Hospital in New York City on July 17, 1959, of "congestion of the lungs complicated by heart failure." At the time of her death she had been under...
In Paris, a couple of weeks before his harrowing death in 1959, Lester Young spoke of Billie Holiday, mournfully commenting, "She's still my Lady Day." On 13 March, suffering from stabbing pains in the stomach, he impulsively returned to New York. On the aeroplane he began to vomit ...
Death and Legacy Holiday gave her final performance in New York City on May 25, 1959. Not long after this event, Holiday was admitted to the hospital for heart and liver problems. She was so addicted to heroin that she was even arrested for possession while in the hospital. On July 17...
Holiday, Billie, 1915–59, American singer, b. Baltimore. Her original name was Eleanora Fagan. She began singing professionally in 1930, and after performing with numerous bands—especially those of Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Count Basie, and Artie
Billie Holiday Jazz Singer Birthday April 7, 1915 Birth Sign Aries Birthplace Philadelphia, PA DEATH DATE Jul 17, 1959 (age 44) #10,599 Most Popular Boost About American jazz singer and songwriter who sang "Strange Fruit," "Easy Living," and "Lady Sings the Blues." She received ...
Billie Holiday (1915-1959), the legendary jazz singer whose vocal stylings were deeply affecting, continues to enthrall. This biography conveys her hard-luck youth, career triumphs, and then decline and early death. At age 14, despite growing up with an absentee musician father, little schooling...